Friday 1 March 2013

Women's sport article research


Women’s sport is underfunded and ignored, charity claims
By Alexandra Topping, accessed on 28/2/13


This article is about women’s sport and the media coverage and acknowledgement that it gets. It discussed how woman’s sport is hardly covered in media with a shocking figure of 5% of all media coverage being woman’s sport. Especially after historic summer for women’s sport in the Olympic and Paralympic games. It also revealed that women’s sport receives just 0.5% of all commercial sponsorship. It also found that from a vote 81% thought that female athletes at London 2012 provided better role models for young girls than any other celebrities. It was also widened to equalizing men and women in the Olympics and sports in general.

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